A. Kudriavtceva

MAE (Kunstkamera), RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

E‑mail: kudriavtsevaa@mail.ru

Ideology and Ethnography: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the 1920's and 1930's in the Illustrative Collections of Peter the Great Kunstkamera

Abstract. The article identifies the properties of Soviet visual narrative of Uzbekistan at the turn of the 1920's — 1930's, as exemplified in three illustrative collections from Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RussianAcademy of Sciences. The collections originate from the Central Asian ethnographic expedition of 1931. On the one hand, the political posters, wall newspapers and ethnographic photographs brought from Samarkand Oblast are indicative of the implementation of the Stalinist “Great Turn” doctrine in the Soviet East, which was connected with industrialization and collectivization; and on the other hand, the archival materials connected with the work of the expedition testify to the beginning ideological transformations of the “Great Retreat” period, according to the famous Russian and American sociologist Nicolas Timasheff (1886—1970). The enthusiasm of young researchers from Leningrad, their sincere bewilderment at the absence of support from the officials from the USSR Academy of Sciences, and difficulties in achieving objectives in Samarkand are all indicative of a transitional period.

Keywords: political poster, ethnographic photography, ethnographic documentary, Soviet Uzbekistan, MAE RAS, Central Asian ethnographic expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1931), “Great Turn” and “Great Retreat” in Soviet Uzbekistan

DOI: 10.31250/1238-5018-2020-26-1-66-77

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Received by the Editorial Board: 11.02.2020